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From: Henry Keultjes <keultjes@e...>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:36:51 -0500
Subject: [openppc] Alpha/Samsung
This post from Slashdot prompt a question. Was there or is there another PowerPC licensee besides Apple, IBM and Motorola? If so, who is that?
Henry Keultjes
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Alpha-Based Samsung Linux Goodness
Posted by timothy on Monday November 05, @07:50PM from the more bits-for-kids dept.
Peter Dyck writes: "This summer Compaq divested itself of the Alpha technology. The Alpha tech was purchased by Intel who most likely will bury it after grafting its best aspects to their own 64 bit IA-64 system. However, the non-exclusive terms of the deal allowed Samsung to continue producing and developing the best 64-bit processor architecture there is today. Now, as a happy owner of a four years old DEC AlphaPC164 I was delighted to see this announcement by Samsung Electronics. In short, the upcoming UP1500 motherboard will house a 64 bit 800+ MHz Alpha 21264B CPU, 4 GB DDR memory, 10/100 Mps LAN, USB and yes, it will run Linux."
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